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Dare to break old holiday traditions. Start a new tradition for you and your family; a tradition of health. Health is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and our family. Let your children grow up with healthy holiday traditions and they will pass those traditions on to their children; a gift that literally keeps on giving for generations.

Since I decided to become healthy, family and friends who come to my house for the holidays eat only healthy food and never go away hungry or unsatisfied. My meals consist of beautiful meats, salads, vegetables, and believe it or not delicious desserts sweetened with healthy sweeteners such as unrefined coconut sugar, honey, 100% pure maple syrup, or sucanat. My meals are free of processed foods, nothing with processed or enriched flours, processed sugars or high fructose corn syrup. This isn’t a fad diet or an unmaintainable diet. This is just plain healthy eating. It’s just you, instilling good habits and making new traditions for your children.

I’m going to include some ideas and recipes to help empower you. To help you make your holiday a healthy success!

GOING SOMEWHERE BESIDES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS?
If you are going to family or friends for the holidays, it’s going to take some prior prep and planning on your part to keep you on track. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Ask what the main course will be. Simply tell them you want to make something to compliment the main course as your contribution to the meal. Don’t tell them it’s because you don’t want to sabotage your healthy eating, or they may try to sabotage you as well. Success will require you to take a legal appetizer such as veggies and dip, or guacamole and corn chips. Next take your wine (not a sweet wine) or beer if you will be drinking alcohol. Now consider a side dish or vegetable such as sweet potatoes cut into chunks and baked with 100% pure maple syrup and cinnamon, instead of the ones laden with sugar and topped with marshmallows. Or, green beans fried with bacon is always a big hit, and it’s legal as well. Then dessert. I will send my favorite brownie recipe. I then make my own whipped cream and flavor with vanilla and sweeten with 100% pure maple syrup. Oh my, you have never tasted anything quite that good. But you can always google Paleo or Keto desserts, however Keto likes to use some artificial sweeteners that I’m not fond of like Xylitol or Erythritol, so make sure you find recipes that don’t contain either of those.

Staying Home for the Holidays?

I don’t even make anything that isn’t legal. We usually have a turkey or prime rib, mashed potatoes with gravy thickened with corn starch, veggies, a shrimp salad which just consists of romaine lettuce, a can of shrimp drained, green onion diced, a lemon squeezed over it, toss with mayo and salt and pepper,
I’m also going to make my dressing and used sweet potatoes instead of bread cubes, and then I make French Silk Brownies with home-made whipped cream sweetened with 100% pure maple syrup. The macadamia nut bread is delicious as well. I added a couple recipes to try out to see if you like them.

Decorate your table, decorate your house, enjoying all those beautiful decorations can take some of the focus off of food.

Healthy Egg Nog (reduced sugar, loaded in healthy fats and nutrients)
Ingredients (makes approx 4 servings)
1 cup heavy cream (pasture-raised preferable, or organic at least; Organic Valley and Kalona are great grass-fed brands we’ve found)
1 cup of any milk (either organic non-homogenized milk, or almond or coconut milk if you prefer. If you’re lactose or casein intolerant, you might try the mix of heavy cream and almond or coconut milk as the best option, and avoid using cows milk. I personally used a raw pasture-raised goat milk here that I got from a local farmer)
3-4 egg yolks
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 Tbsp REAL maple syrup (organic and grade B preferred due to higher nutrients than grade A; Can also use 2 tbsp coconut sugar if you prefer instead of maple syrup)
2-3 packets of stevia or monk fruit to desired sweetness (If you want this recipe to be Keto, omit the maple syrup and use any stevia blend or monk fruit sweetener blend to taste)
1 scoop of your favorite naturally-sweetened vanilla protein powder (not sweetened with artificial sweeteners)
Instructions:
Some recipes call for you to cook the egg nog, and other recipes just do a raw egg nog. I chose to make this one raw, because I’m personally not afraid of raw egg yolks, and have never once gotten sick in my entire life from raw egg yolks, as the risk of pasture raised egg yolks containing salmonella is very slim compared to factory farmed egg yolks, which has a higher risk, although still low.
Plus, when you cook egg yolks, you oxidize some of the cholesterol, making it a little bit less healthy, so that’s another reason we chose to make this egg nog raw instead of cooked. Honestly, the taste is better raw in my opinion too.
However, if you’re at all concerned about eating uncooked egg yolks, you can always follow any recipe for egg nog that cooks the egg nog, but just use these ingredients I show in this one.
To make this raw egg nog is very simple…
Place all of the ingredients above in a blender and blend for about 30-60 seconds. You’re done! It’s incredibly delicious and as you saw in my description in the intro of this blog, it’s actually loaded with beneficial nutrients, lower in sugar than most egg nog, and higher in protein!
Here’s a couple more great recipes from the Paleohacks blog if you’re looking for more awesome ideas for healthy treats:
> Paleo egg nog cupcakes recipe (whoa this is good!)
Paleo Coconut flour shortbread cookies (wow, soooo tasty!
Sweet Potato Pancakes

How To Make It
1. Preheat oven to 375 °F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil for easy clean up.
2. Roll each Brussels sprout in half a slice of bacon. Secure the bacon with a toothpick and place on the baking sheet.
3. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the bacon reaches the desired crispiness.

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